Curl: Fix CURL (51) SSL error: no alternative certificate subject name matches

Question

I am new to CURL world, coming from Windows + .NET domain.

Trying to access Rest API for basic authentication at http://www.evercam.io/docs/api/v1/authentication.

Answer 1

The common name in the certicate for api.evercam.io is for *.herokuapp.com and there are no alternative subject names in the certificate. This means, that the certificate for api.evercam.io does not match the hostname and therefore the certificate verification fails. Same as true for www.evercam.io, e.g. try https://www.evercam.io with a browser and you get the error message, that the name in the certificate does not match the hostname.

So it is a problem which needs to be fixed by evercam.io. If you don't care about security, man-in-the-middle attacks etc you might disable verification of the certificate (curl --insecure), but then you should ask yourself why you use https instead of http at all.